This Term:

School is about developing tools of various kinds. One tool that has become common across all of Science, Engineering, and Technology is the microprocessor. These come in many forms some of which are open source and some of which are proprietary. Like your calculator they are a tool which, with experience, can help you find personal solutions to data gathering and control needs in many settings. The underlying skills are a form of programming and are used in robots, drones, laser engravers, CNC mills and lathes, 3D printers,manufacturing facilities, and science experiments of all kinds.

This is new material for the PH213 lab so bear with me as I develop this material. Let me know if you wish there was a particular resource available and I will totally appreciate it if you find the resource you want and send it to me. Remember that everything on this site will stay here and be available to you at any point in the future that you might need it. Be mindful of intellectual property concerns and only post original material or resources that fit with the Create Commons license for this site. This is going to be a lot of fun....!!!

Here's the general plan:

Stage 1: Learn how to interact and communicate with the Arduino

Stage 2: Execute a small project to build ability to understand, implement, test, debug, and document an Arduino project designed by someone else

Stage 3: If we were to get here this would be independently designed and executed Arduino projects. This could include robotics or ROV projects.

Don't assume that each of the links on the right represents a single week. We may well explore more than one topic each week but this seems (at the moment) like a way to keep track of the different topics more effectively.

Stage 1: Communication

Stage 2: Project

Resources: